curtain的意思和读音

curtain

: [ˈkɜrt(ə)n] : [ˈkɜː(r)t(ə)n]

n.

v.

curtains  

adj.+n.final curtain

v.+n.pull curtain,draw curtain,open curtain

n.drape,blind,screen,shutter,shade

curtainn.

1.[c]a piece of cloth that is hung to cover a window

to draw/pull/close the curtains(= to pull them across the window so they cover it)

to draw/draw back/pull back the curtains(= to open them, so that the window is no longer covered)

It was ten in the morning but the curtains were still drawn(= closed) .

a pair of curtains

2.[c]a very thin piece of cloth that you hang at a window, which allows light to enter but stops people outside from being able to see inside

3.[c];(a piece of cloth that is hung up as a screen in a room or around a bed, for example

a shower curtain

4.[sing]a piece of thick, heavy cloth that hangs in front of the stage in the theatre

The audience was waiting for the curtain to rise(= for the play to begin) .

There was tremendous applause when the curtain came down(= the play ended) .

We left just before the final curtain .

The curtain has fallen on her long and distinguished career(= her career has ended) .

It's time to face the final curtain(= the end; death) .

5.[c][ususing]a thing that covers, hides or protects sth

a curtain of rain/smoke

She pushed back the curtain of brown hair from her eyes.

IDM

When I saw he had a gun, I thought it was curtains for me.

be curtains (for sb)(informal)to be a situation without hope or that you cannot escape from

When I saw he had a gun, I thought it was curtains for me.

His sudden decision to retire brought down the curtain on a distinguished career.退

bring down the curtain on sthbring the curtain down on sthto finish or mark the end of sth

His sudden decision to retire brought down the curtain on a distinguished career.退

v.

1.~ sthto provide curtains for a window or a room

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v.1....;[][] (off);,

n.1.a long piece of cloth, usually one of a pair, that hangs down and covers a window; a long piece of material that hangs down and separates one part of a room from another; a very large piece of cloth that is pulled up or to the side on a theater stage when a performance starts2.a large amount of a substance such as smoke or rain that is too thick to see through

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3. face to face curtain dusty ...

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5. face to face curtain dusty ...

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1.But when he awoke next morning it was to the clanging of a bell, and the first thing his eyes saw was the green curtain of his cubicle.绿

2.Market as a whole a week long silk curtain cloth prices remained stable, price promotional prices or variety is only a few.

3.The curtain is on fire! I'm pointing at it, a shocked look on my face.

4.But in the last two years of feelings, which in its early winter night but to pull down the curtain.

5.Its too bad the curtain as the fall, its been a perfect night with you.

6.And with the fall of the Iron Curtain, elections indeed swept the world. Yet democracy doesn't seem to have delivered on its promise.

7.With all that dust thick curtain, the sunlight block in the outside, no one seems to live.

8.But as the curtain comes down on Sunday, its real value might be measured in millions of individual memories.

9.Wires led out from beneath it to a black curtain a few feet away, where a man crouched and clicked commands into a computer.

10.Not a lot was made of it at the time, but the once impregnable Iron Curtain had been breached.